The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies brings together an international group of childhood studies scholars who work with a range of critical theories. It speaks to both scholars and students by addressing questions such as how childhoods are diversely constructed and how childrens experiences can be better understood. The volume draws together a diversity of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities such as critical race studies, disability studies, posthumanism, feminism, politics, decolonialism, queer theory and postcolonialism to generate a much-needed conversation about how to move childhood studies forward as a grounded field of research. The volume is subdivided into three sections - subjectivities, relationalities, and structures - each of which addresses different but interrelated approaches to childhood studies theorization. This handbook will be an essential text not just for childhood studies researchers, but for all those interested in theorizing what childhood is, what work it does and who children are.

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A wonderful new resource for researchers and students interested in leading edge concepts in childhood studies. -- John Horton, Professor and Research Leader in the Faculty of Health, Education & Society, University of Northampton, UK

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SARADA BALAGOPALAN is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA.

JOHN WALL is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religion with Joint Appointment in the Department of Childhood Studies, and Director of the Childism Institute at Rutgers University, USA.

KAREN WELLS is Professor of International Development and Childhood Studies and the Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.